john tweets -- any news report containing the words kardashian, bieber or lohan because it indangers my sanity. jeremy tweets -- electronics that go obsolete after a year or two. cough apple cough. nick tweets -- congress. obviously hash tag trash of the century. harsh. harsh. maybe living in connecticut. >> i think the frustration on the part of americans is extremely understandable given what we've gone through. >> i think particularly over the hurricane sandy events. >> yes, exactly. particularly over that. >>> all right, let's get to it. here's what you might have missed if you're just tuning in. >>> welcome to hour three of "squawk on the street." here's what's happening so far. >> i think the white house in this second-best world won that round but they -- by not insisting that the debt limit be tied to that package, it's entirely possible they're going to win the week and lose the quarter. >> it is going to get really ugly because the debt ceiling is a real fiscal cliff. that is -- if you go over that, then you've attacked the credit rating of the united states in a serious wa